I am a young whippersnapper who has been teaching herself guitar for about 3 years (so no, I'm not an expert by any means). I've dabbled in songwriting before, but I was kind of thrown into it this summer when a friend of mine asked me to perform with her by way of "I'm doing some original compositions - what are you doing?" After scrambling to churn out an entire set list in two weeks, I wound up with some songs that were, in my opinion, kind of awful, but that in some way I was proud of. Immediately I wanted to get better. Having stalked SongFight for a few years, I thought this might be a good place to get constructive criticism, and I hope to participate in the next fight.